VMware Horizon Cloud Service Next Gen on Microsoft Azure: Deploy and Manage — Lesson 3: Images, Desktop Pools, Farms, App Volumes, DEM, and Entitlements

Learning Objectives

• Correlate the roles, prerequisites, dependencies, and decision points that shape images, desktop pools, farms, app volumes, dem, and entitlements.
• Secure the workflow and produce desktop-and-application publication test with persona validation that another practitioner can review and repeat.
• Configure “a new image version preserving desktop access but omitting a required application package” without introducing an unverified production change.

Detailed Topics

• gold-image preparation
• image publishing
• desktop pools
• RDS farms
• App Volumes applications
• Dynamic Environment Manager profiles
• entitlements
• assignment policies
• user-session validation
• image and application lifecycle
• Decision ownership and acceptance evidence for images, desktop pools, farms, app volumes, dem, and entitlements
• Relevant security, performance, resilience, rollback, and support considerations

Instructor Demonstration

The instructor demonstrates gold-image preparation, image publishing, desktop pools, RDS farms, App Volumes applications, Dynamic Environment Manager profiles, entitlements, assignment policies, user-session validation, image and application lifecycle in a representative environment. Each material checkpoint is captured in desktop-and-application publication test with persona validation, and the walkthrough contrasts the intended state with a condition where a new image version preserving desktop access but omitting a required application package.

Hands-On Exercise

Complete a controlled implementation or analysis for Images, Desktop Pools, Farms, App Volumes, DEM, and Entitlements. Establish a known baseline, introduce or reproduce “a new image version preserving desktop access but omitting a required application package,” isolate the proven cause, apply a reversible correction, and record the accepted result in desktop-and-application publication test with persona validation.

1. Confirm scope, identities, infrastructure, dependencies, and expected result.
2. Execute the planned configuration or operational sequence while preserving checkpoints.
3. Test one expected path, one boundary condition, and the identified failure path.
4. Retest after correction and document rollback, ownership, and preventive action.

Scenario Analysis

• Decide which requirement or dependency has the greatest influence on images, desktop pools, farms, app volumes, dem, and entitlements.
• Compare two valid implementation or recovery choices and identify the evidence that would distinguish them.
• Explain how desktop-and-application publication test with persona validation should be reviewed, retained, and handed to the next owner.

Troubleshooting Guidance

Begin with effective configuration, recent changes, connectivity, health, logs, and timing. Use desktop-and-application publication test with persona validation to find the earliest divergence between expected and observed behavior. Treat “a new image version preserving desktop access but omitting a required application package” as a hypothesis until the corrected path passes both the original test and a boundary condition.

Validation Checklist

• The implemented state for images, desktop pools, farms, app volumes, dem, and entitlements is traceable to approved inputs.
• Desktop-and-application publication test with persona validation contains baseline, test, correction, and accepted-result evidence.
• Security, capacity, performance, resilience, downstream impact, and rollback were considered where relevant.
• Monitoring, escalation, recovery, and support ownership are clear enough for operational use.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply Images, Desktop Pools, Farms, App Volumes, DEM, and Entitlements, explain the decisions made, and defend the result with desktop-and-application publication test with persona validation.